Dissertation: “Jacobinism and the Reviewers: The English Literary Periodicals as Organs of Anti-Jacobin Propaganda, 1792-1832”

Professional Experience:

Professor of History, emeritus, Francis Marion University, 2005-

Professor of History, Francis Marion University, 1986-2005

Associate Professor of History, Francis Marion University, 1982-86

Assistant Professor of History, Francis Marion University, 1974-82

Research Field:

18th- and 19th-century British press history (research centering upon the identification of anonymous and pseudonymous contributors to leading British periodicals, particularly the Gentleman’s Magazine, the Anti-Jacobin Review, and the European Magazine, as well as the British Critic, Blackwood’s Magazine, and the English Review)

Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa

Woodrow Wilson Fellow

Francis Marion University Trustees Research Scholar (appointed 2002)

Francis Marion University Distinguished Professor of 1987-88

Francis Marion University Shared Governance Award of 1999-2000 (presented by the Francis Marion University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors)

Honored by Francis Marion University by the establishment of the E. Lorraine de Montluzin Endowed Chair in Shared Governance (2012)

Phi Kappa Phi

Omicron Delta Kappa

Phi Alpha Theta

Sigma Tau Delta

NDEA Title IV Fellow

Books published:

The Poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1800: An Electronic Database of Titles, Authors, and First Lines, An Ongoing Project, revised edition (2015). Available at http://www.gmpoetrydatabase.org; Web.

This database is designed to provide users with a comprehensive, fully browsable and searchable list of the 12,554 poems (of which 4,910 are by identified authors) printed in the Gentleman’s Magazine from its beginning in 1731 through 1800. Presented chronologically, with full titles, first lines, authors (if known), signatures, references or justifications for attribution, and additional historical information where needed, the database is intended to offer researchers ready, rapid, thorough, and user-friendly electronic access to the vast resources of literary (and in many cases historical) source material encompassed in the poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, one of the greatest repositories of verse in the eighteenth century. An alphabetical synopsis by contributor incorporating all of the 1,288 known authors of poetry printed in the GM serves as an authorial cross reference to the contents of the database as well as providing dates of birth and death and authors’ occupations, if known.

The database enables researchers of eighteenth-century print culture and of the Gentleman’s Magazine in particular to examine trends in publication and identify clusters of subjects that found favor with poets, readers, and publishers alike. It permits students of specific poets an improved opportunity to track the printing or reprinting of their works. It showcases the printing of poems produced by dozens of eighteenth-century women writers, many of whom were ignored by mainstream scholarship until very recently. It provides eighteenth-century historians expanded access to the magazine’s tremendous fund of source material on a variety of topics ranging across political, military, colonial, and economic history as well as science and medicine, theology, literary taste, the arts, leisure, and attitudes toward such social issues as slavery and the role of women.

Though constructed to stand fully alone, The Poetry of the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1800, complements the author’s Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List, Web (Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia, 2003) http://bsuva.org/bsuva/gm2; Web.

Attributions of Authorship in the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” 1731-1868: An Electronic Union List. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2003. Available at http://bsuva.org/bsuva/gm2; Web.

This electronic book, published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, brings together in one key-word-searchable and fully browsable electronic text all of the 25,585 then-known attributions of authorship of letters, articles, reviews, poems, and other items printed in Georgian England’s greatest magazine, gleaned from all then-available published and unpublished sources for the GM. It consists in part of an integration and correction of the three earlier Gentleman’s Magazine electronic books (published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia in 1996, 1997, and 1999, respectively) listed below; but it goes far beyond those texts to expand the citations of thousands of items in order to make them more conducive to key-word searches, to create new indices of contributors and pseudonyms, and to incorporate over 6,000 new finds. Encompassing 25,585 items from some 2,362 contributors and presented in a logical and clear sequence, the database, approximately 1,759 pages of browsable text, is constructed to be searchable electronically by volume number, page number, date, title, author, pseudonym, and key-word. All attributions are cross-referenced, appearing first in a chronological listing and then in a synopsis by contributor, both of which sections are fully browsable, so that users may easily examine each attribution in its chronological context. Accompanying the text is a browsable index of pseudonyms and initials used in the contributors’ signatures.

Daily Life in Georgian England as Reported in the “Gentleman’s Magazine.” Studies in British and American Magazines, no. 14. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.

Attributions of Authorship in the “European Magazine,” 1782-1826. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2000. Available at http://bsuva.org/bsuva/euromag; Web.
The Anti-Jacobins, 1798-1800: The Early Contributors to the “Anti-Jacobin Review.” London: Macmillan Press, 1988.

Attributions of Authorship in the “Gentleman’s Magazine”: An Electronic Version of James M. Kuist’s “The Nichols File of the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine.’” Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, ed. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1999. Archived at http://bsuva.org/bsuva; Web.

Attributions of Authorship in the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” 1731-1868: A Synthesis of Finds Appearing Neither in Kuist’s “Nichols File” nor in de Montluzin’s “Supplement to Kuist.” Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1997. Archived at http://bsuva.org/bsuva; Web.

Attributions of Authorship in the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” 1731-1868: A Supplement to Kuist. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1996. Archived at http://bsuva.org/bsuva; Web.

Articles published:

“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1807-1808: A Supplement to the Union List.”Notes and Queries (forthcoming) 263.3 (September 2018).

“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1805-1806: A Supplement to the Union List.”Notes and Queries (forthcoming) 263.3 (September 2018).

“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1803-1804: A Supplement to the Union List.”Notes and Queries 262.4 (December 2017): 556-566.

“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1801-1802: A Supplement to the Union List.”Notes and Queries 261.4 (December 2016): 624-636.

“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1799-1800: A Supplement to the Union List.”Notes and Queries 261.1 (March 2016): 94-105.

“Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1797-98: A Supplement to the Union List.”Notes and Queries 62.2 (June 2015): 305-315.

“The ‘Dedication Scene’ in ‘The Prelude’ and the ‘Book of Common Prayer.’” Notes and Queries, n.s., 22 (Feb. 1975): 59-60.

“Southey’s ‘Satanic School’ Remarks: An Old Charge for a New Offender.” Keats-Shelley Journal 21-22 (1972-73): 29-33.

Current Professional Memberships:

American Historical Association

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia

Current Professional Service:

Established (2005) and continuing to promote the Emily Lorraine de Montluzin Endowed Fund for Library Enhancement under the auspices of the Francis Marion University Foundation.

Secretary-Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Emily de Montluzin Foreign Language Scholarship Fund. [The Emily de Montluzin Foreign Language Scholarship Fund was established in 1983 in honor of Emily Hosmer de Montluzin to provide scholarships to students who had excelled in the study of foreign languages and who intended to continue their study of languages at the college level. The fund enjoys federal tax-exempt status and currently awards a $3,000 scholarship annually to a deserving student, chosen by the voting members of the Board of Directors in a rigorous competition.]